Heir to a revolutionary past, playwright and author Zayd Ayers Dohrn charts his own path

In May 2024, when Northwestern University made a deal with pro-Palestinian student protesters to dismantle their encampment, Fox News headlined its story this way: “Northwestern professor, whose school gave in to anti-Israel agitators, is son of notorious terrorist radicals.” Even when Zayd Ayers Dohrn is secluded in his ivory tower along the shores of Lake Michigan and minding his own business, he can’t escape the taint of his parents’ revolutionary past. “I of course had nothing to do with…